The Association’s mission is to engage the collective
resources, scholarship, and technology of its member institutions to help
promote optimum health among poor and minority communities. Its approach includes an emphasis on
increasing the representation of underrepresented minorities in the health
professions. The 12 member institutions
include medical, dental, pharmacy and veterinary medicine schools at
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

The ASPH Health Disparities Research and Diversity
Resource Center is a venue for sharing ASPH member schools’ current health
disparities research activities, as well as providing important information
that will help in diversifying the schools’ faculty and student body.

The organization’s mission is to provide essential
resources for academic and career development to students, faculty, and other
health professionals to help address the health disparities that exist in the
Hispanic community.

The National CLAS
Standards are intended to advance health equity, improve quality, and help
eliminate health care disparities by providing a blueprint for individuals and
health and health care organizations to implement culturally and linguistically
appropriate services.

The mission of the NCCC is to increase the capacity of
health care and mental health care programs to design, implement, and evaluate
culturally and linguistically competent service delivery systems to address
growing diversity, persistent disparities, and to promote health and mental
health equity.

NCCAM is offering free, comprehensive videolectures about
research in complementary health approaches. Topics range from mind-body pain
therapies to acupuncture. These online videolectures provide an in-depth
perspective on the current state of science, as related to complementary
medicine.

The Health Equity and Prevention Primer serves as a
web-based training series for public health practitioners and advocates
interested in policy advocacy, community change, and multi-sector engagement to
achieve health equity. The Primer helps practitioners integrate a health equity
lens into their initiatives in pursuit of overall health and safety.

Healthcare providers can learn about integrative
therapies and healing practices in this informative online series and earn
continuing nursing education credit. We are currently in the process of
updating all the modules (see below), but as always, we encourage users to seek
the most recent clinical studies.

The NIH distributes health and research information to a
wide range of readers, including the general public, Congress, medical
practitioners and researchers, and the business and governmental communities.
To communicate NIH messages clearly, you should use plain language for all
documents, presentations, and electronic messages.

This course provides an
online learning environment from which to explore root causes of inequity in
the distribution of disease, illness, and death. Its audience is primarily the
local public health workforce and seeks to ground participants in the concepts
and strategies that could lead to effective action.

The goal of Think Cultural
Health is to Advance Health Equity at Every Point of Contact through the
development and promotion of culturally and linguistically appropriate
services. Our continuing education programs are designed to help individuals at
all levels and in all disciplines promote health and health equity.​

​The Maryland Health Disparities Collaborative was established in 2008 in compliance with Maryland Health-General Article, Section 20-1004 that calls for a statewide alliance to promote the objectives of the Office. The MHHD is located within the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and is required by statute to provide guidance to DHMH on eliminating health disparities.

The Mission of the Collaborative is to advise and encourage policies, programs, and innovations that improve the health of minorities and all Marylanders.

The Collaborative strategy involves broad and diverse partnerships, race and ethnic data analysis, community participation and empowerment, and efforts to increase awareness.

The Collaborative is co-chaired by the current DHMH Secretary and Donna Jacobs, Esq, Senior Vice President of Governmental and Regulatory Affairs, University of Maryland Medical System.

Collaborative members includes key stakeholders in Maryland with expertise and program knowledge on the elimination of racial and ethnic minority health disparities.

The Collaborative is open to all interested individuals and organizations. Organizations invited to participate in the Collaborative include a wide representation of State and Local health leadership, healthcare administrators, community health advocates, faith-based representatives, academic leadership, and includes representatives from diverse geographic locations.